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Rosja jako tekst i doświadczenie. O podróżowaniu do Rosji

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Bachórz A.

Przegląd Rusycystyczny

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2012

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issue 1/2

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Agata Bachórz Uniwersytet Gdański, Gdańska, Poland PRZ.RUS@op.pl РОССИЯ КАК ТЕКСТ И КАК ОПЫТ - О ПОЛЬСКИХ ПУТЕЩЕСТВИЯХ В РОССИЮ Резюме Целью статьи является реконструкция содержания современного польского дискурса на тему России как места путешествий и туристических поездок. Статья основана на социологических глубинных интервью с путешественниками, а также на контент-анализе путевой литературы. В качестве рамок для интерпретации используетя постколониальная перспектива (в ее восточноевропейском варианте), а также исто-рическое знание на тему польско-русских отношений. Выделено следующие фигуры польского путешественного дискурса на тему России: понимание путешествия в Россию как задачи, связанной с идентичностью путешественника, трактовка России как угрозы, описание России с использованием категорий тайны и загадки, употребление запада как точки отчета, а также использование колониальных схем и временных категорий (пр. отставание). Существуют два главныx, противоположныx типа отношений к России в опыте польских путешественников: Россия как отрицательный и компенсационный пункт для сравнений, а также Россия как идеализированное анти-современное убежище, основанное на чистоте, первобытности и социальной утопии. RUSSIA AS A TEXT AND EXPERIENCE. ABOUT POLISH TRAVEL TO RUSSIA Summary The aim of the article is to reconstruct the most important characteristics of Polish travel discourse about contemporary Russia. Conclusions are drawn from the sociological in-depth interviews with travellers and content analysis of travel books about Russia. Postcolonial perspective in its Eastern European version serves as an interpretative frame. Historical back-ground of Polish-Russian relationship also has been taken into consideration. The article examines the main figures of Polish travel discourse: travelling to Russia as an identity project, speaking about Russia as a threat, describing Russia as a mystery, using West as a reference point, basing on some aspects of colonial repertoire and building time constructions (like backwardness or lack of change). The main two styles of experiencing Russia by Polish travelers are shown in the article. One of them treats Russia as a negative reference point for the Polish European identity, while another searches for an anti-modern asylum, basing on primordiality, lack of contamination and social utopia.

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HIDDEN RESOURCES? HOUSEHOLDS’ STRATEGIES FOR MAINTAINING CONTROL OVER FOOD: BETWEEN CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY

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Bachórz A.

Studia Humanistyczne AGH

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2018

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vol. 17

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issue 2

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This paper deals with internal household strategies for regaining control over quality, safety and the meaning of food, as applied by people in Poland. Using material gathered by interviewing representatives of twogenerations, the paper analyses the bottom-up, scattered and intra-family solutions woven into the structure of everyday life. Although alternative food networks and food activism are emerging nowadays as an important area of criticism towards contemporary food production and supply, the paper goes back to the choices made within the mainstream food system. Although the interviewees could be classified as middle-class and for this reason are expected to eagerly adapt to new lifestyle patterns, the research material allows one to focus not only on the novelty in people’s culinary choices, but above all – on the continuity. Forms of domestic cooking and buying provisions for the household – as embodied skills based on physical work and time available – are interpreted in the light of contemporary food distrust. The similarities between late modern and traditional mechanisms of maintaining trust are analysed, showing how different layers overlap, shaping a mix of traditional and modern forms.

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FOOD FEARS, FOOD DISTRUST AND FOOD EXCLUSION IN ONE POSTSOCIALIST CULTURE. AND BEYOND

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Kopczyńska E., Bachórz A.

Studia Humanistyczne AGH

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2018

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vol. 17

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issue 2

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The papers in this volume illustrate how using resources from the past can be a response to the threats of what is seen as external influence. Food uncertainty often concerns the global economy, the capitalist system, the transforming production and distribution system, new technologies, selling and marketing methods, etc. Therefore, the lack of trust is directed not only toward cultural dynamics of late modernity, but also toward domination of the Western centre of the food system. The resistance embedded in food fears has not only temporal, but also spatial and political dimensions. Openly expressed food fears as well as informal, bottom-up alternative-seeking in certain contexts can be then interpreted as indirect criticismof the transformations the Polish economy and culture have been undergoing.

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Rosja jako tekst i doświadczenie. O podróżowaniu do Rosji

HIDDEN RESOURCES? HOUSEHOLDS’ STRATEGIES FOR MAINTAINING CONTROL OVER FOOD: BETWEEN CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY

FOOD FEARS, FOOD DISTRUST AND FOOD EXCLUSION IN ONE POSTSOCIALIST CULTURE. AND BEYOND